[ale] "i am a god"

[aaron]

On 2009, Dec, 18, , at 8:51 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> I never read Stranger until 1993. A that time I read the rerelease  
> that was the original manuscript version.
>
> I want to be Juble Harshaw when I grow up :-)
>
I haven't read Stranger -- more of an Arthur Clarke / Kurt Vonnegut /
Kilgore Trout / Stannislaw Lem scifi fan  -- so the name alone made
me curious about the character.  This is the front of his wikipedia
entry:

" Jubal Harshaw is a fictional character featured in Stranger in a  
Strange Land,
a novel by Robert A. Heinlein. He is described as: "Jubal E. Harshaw,  
LL.B., M.D.,
Sc.D., bon vivant, gourmet, sybarite, popular author extraordinary,  
neo-pessimist
philosopher, devout agnostic, professional clown, amateur subversive,  
and parasite
by choice. "

I definitely can see the appeal in being this person.  Sans the
degrees (which I can fake if needed...) I'm about 75% Jubal without
even knowing it and I figure Jim at about 85% without trying, too.
:-)

peace
aaron








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>> On Dec 18, 2009 8:38 AM, "Jeff Lightner" <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
>>
>> I know - I often use the word myself.
>>
>> I first read Stranger (and most of Heinlein's other works) in the  
>> mid-to-late 70s.  This last year I bought another copy and reread it.
>>
>> It's a shame they haven't done a better job with the few Heinlein  
>> books made into movies.  Starship Troopers was a joke and ignored  
>> many of the points Heinlein as an Annapolis grad was trying to  
>> make about duty in favor of showing as much gore as possible.
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